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when I was growing up there were no school loans, but colleges and universities were subsidized by the state and federal government grants and scholarships were plentiful because ... I am the generation who grew up with Sputnik. The fact that the soviets got a satellite up in the air first scared them to start the space program and look for a generation of educated kids. After the 70's people decided they didn't want to pay for kids to go to college to protest, not realizing how the war in Vietnam was destroying the educated generation, only people with money did not go (see Trump, GWBush). if you were educated you could still get drafted. My husband was drafted even though he was legally blind without glasses (they changed the definition, but, strangely, he still could not see), flat fee, and curvature of the spine thanks to 3 years in an iron lung even though he had a degree. On the bus with him was a kid with Asthma, who was changed from 4F to good to serve when they changed the definition of asthma.

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Ronnie got rid of free college in California.

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